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Evolution & Natural Selection

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Immigration, Migration, and Emigration are examples of ______.
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Some individuals leave more offspring than others. Sometimes the less fit are the ones who have the offspring, meaning, sometimes just lucky genes survive. This is better known as _____.
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Estimated age of a rock or fossil by measuring the ratio of a radioisotope and daughter elements is know as ________.
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The dude who determined that an organism would develop a structure if needed. For example: Fish in pond would walk on fins if pond dried up...Use/disuse
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_______ is a distinction in appearance between males and females not directly associated with reproduction or survival
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_______ is a form of natural selection in which individuals with certain traits are more likely than other individuals to obtain mates.
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random change in allele frequency in a population
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_____ came up with the idea of catastrophism which states that a vast supply of species were created initially, and after successive catastrophes—like the Great Flood described in the Bible— some species were destroyed.
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A change in a sequence of DNA is called a what
10.
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Theoretical state in which a population is not evolving (allele frequencies do not change)
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Portions of DNA that are not used, but there to trace back to our ancestors. Every living things has the same sequence that goes from DNA to protein.

12.
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80% of all plants are ______.
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The idea that we started as a single cell... then to fish...to a bird...and then embryonic development lead to a to baby chick is better known as ______.
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Who named organisms based on similarities. We use his method of classification by two-part binomial.
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In _____, individuals use characteristics to select a mate even if the characteristic is not beneficial in other ways.
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Squirrels on opposite rims of the Grand Canyon were separated by the Colorado River and became different species. This is an example of _____, which is ______.
17.
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When using ______, rocks are not the best thing to use because they decay into dirt. Gold is much better.
18.
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Mechanical isolation (prezygotic) results in two different species. This is an example of Sympatric or allopatric speciation?
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_______ is the presence of extra sets of chromosomes due to accidents during cell division
20.
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A _______ is an individual with more than two chromosome sets, derived from one species
21.
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Who stumbled upon the idea of use/disuse - For example: Giraffe neck and large muscles are passed on to offspring
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_______ favors intermediate phenotypes, occurs in relatively stable environments, and is the most common. Example: Picking grey! Black or white are eliminated.
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Sudden decrease in population size
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______ is a record of the chronology of Earth history and how its history correlate with evolutionary events.
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embryology follows pathway of ancestry (does not fully form ancestrally forms)
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Although most evolutionary mechanisms reduce genetic diversity, _______s restore genetic diversity by creating new alleles.
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Change in flow of a river, lava flow, development of a mountain range, habitat destruction
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Structures in different species that are similar because of a common ancestor.
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_______ thought similarities in birds on different continents might indicate a common ancestor
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Came up with the idea of Gradualism- earth millions of years old with slow change over time.
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Structures with little to NO use in the current organism, but was use in an ancestor.
32.
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The geologic era in which we currently live and that started 65 million years ago is called the ______ era.
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In fossils, for example the layers of dirt, the layers on top are the oldest?
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The dude who proposed the idea of uniformatism which was proposed to show that geological processes have occurred over a long period of time and gradually changed the landscape, implying that the Earth is very old.
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shifts the overall makeup of a population by selecting in favor of one extreme phenotype. Example: white mice v. black mice.
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Continental drift and Development of a new barrier are examples of what kind of speciation?
37.
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Dividing the earth into new continents which produced many geographically separated populations
38.
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Ontogeny recapitulates ("repeats") phylogeny
39.
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_____ is the breeding of domestic plants and animals to produce specific desirable features.
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The study of patterns in the geographic distribution of species and communities. For example: things that fly, can fly to the island. Mammals have hard time getting to the island.
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Pattern in which speciation (new species arising) occurs in the absence of a physical barrier
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movement of genes into or out of a population due to interbreeding
43.
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The slow and gradual process by which organism changed from the simplest unicellular form, to the most complex multicellular forms.
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______ can lead to a balance between two or more contrasting phenotypic forms in a population. Example: White mice thrive and black too but grey do not.
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Small # of individuals start new population
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Geologic data show that Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. This is better know as ________.
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